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U-MobileViT: A Lightweight Vision Transformer-based Backbone for Panoptic Driving Segmentation

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Phuoc-Thinh Nguyen
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The-Bang Nguyen
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Phu Pham
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Minh Bui *
DOI:10.1016/j.image.2025.117461delete
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Panoramic driving perception requires robust and efficient context understanding, which requires simultaneous semantic and instance segmentation. This paper proposes U-MobileViT, a lightweight backbone network designed to address this challenge. Our architecture combines the advantages of MobileViT, a family of Transformer-based models with high accuracy and fast processing speed, with the image segmentation structure of the U-Net model, facilitating multiscale feature fusion and accurate localization. U-MobileViT efficiently combines local and global spatial information by utilizing MobileViT Blocks with Separable-Attention layers, resulting in a computationally lightweight yet effective architecture, while the U-Net structure enables efficient integration of features from different levels of the hierarchy. This synergistic combination enables the generation of rich, context-aware feature maps that are critical for accurate panoramic segmentation. Through extensive experiments on the challenging BDD100K driving dataset, we demonstrate that U-MobileViT achieves state-of-the-art performance in panoramic driving perception, outperforming existing lightweight models in both accuracy and inference speed. Our results demonstrate the potential of U-MobileViT as a robust and efficient backbone for real-time panoramic scene understanding in autonomous driving applications. Code is available at https://github.com/quyongkeomut/UMobileViT.
Keywords:
Segmentation
MobileViT
Attention Mechanism
Vision Transformer
U-Net

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SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION
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ho chi minh city university of technology (hutech)
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University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
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